为生产级AI代理设计运行时治理架构,解决风险内嵌于流程中的安全难题。
A Five-Plane Reference Architecture for Runtime Governance of Production AI Agents
- 基于五层分解与复合主体机制,实现动态授权与权限衰减。
- 在五个实际工作流中消除七类生产级代理威胁,决策耗时不足十微秒。
- 适合企业安全团队和AI系统架构师,关注代理行为治理而非模型本身。
企业安全传统上围绕数据边界构建:受保护面是静止或传输中的数据,控制措施(如访问控制、防数据泄露、边界检测)用于管理该边界的穿越。生产级AI代理打破了这一假设:代理读取上下文、调用工具、触发连接器,并代表企业修改系统记录,使风险进入工作流内部,成为一系列被单独授权的操作序列,可能彻底改变业务流程而无人授权。现有策略引擎无法适应此场景:它们仅在请求时刻评估原子主体的决策,而智能体系统需要基于复合主体的状态化评估,其权限随委托链递减。本文提出一个生产级代理运行时治理的参考架构,由四个可组合原语构成:五层分解(推理层裁定意图,网络、身份、终端、数据四层执行决策)、任意位置介入调解、支持能力衰减的复合主体,以及结构化审计证据底座。定义了六种中断原语以泛化允许与拒绝,论证四项正确性不变量,并在五个具体工作流中证明能防范七类生产代理威胁。参考实现的核心策略引擎提供可度量证据:每次试验中权限衰减正确性与证据可重构性均成立,推理耗时在单数微秒级,审计底座的抗篡改证据行为完全符合设计。明确限定范围:该架构治理的是委托动作,而非模型行为;对真实代理基准的全系统评估是下一步邀请。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Enterprise security was built to govern data boundaries: the protected surface was data at rest and in transit, and the controls -- access control, data-loss prevention, perimeter inspection -- governed crossings of that boundary. Production AI agents dissolve this assumption. An agent reads context, calls tools, invokes connectors, and modifies systems of record on an enterprise's behalf, so risk moves inside the workflow, into sequences of individually-permitted actions that may transform a business process no one authorized. Existing policy engines do not extend to this regime: they evaluate request-time decisions against atomic principals, where agentic systems require stateful evaluation against composite principals whose authority attenuates through delegation chains. We present a reference architecture for the runtime governance of production agents, built from four composable primitives: a five-plane decomposition (a reasoning plane that adjudicates intent, and four enforcement planes -- network, identity, endpoint, data -- that realize the decision), stop-anywhere mediation, composite principals with capability attenuation, and audit as a structured evidence substrate. We define a taxonomy of six interruption primitives that generalize allow and deny, state and argue for four correctness invariants, and demonstrate the foreclosure of seven production-agent threats across five concrete workflows. A reference implementation of the policy-engine core supplies measured evidence: attenuation correctness and evidence reconstructability hold on every trial, adjudication runs in single-digit microseconds, and the audit substrate's tamper-evidence behaves exactly as designed. We are explicit about scope: the architecture governs delegated action, not model behavior, and a full-system evaluation against a live agent benchmark is the invited next step.
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